· They are experienced as if they are coded messages from some transcendent realm of spirituality –…Thus synchronicities focus on the increasing interest on combining science and spirituality….
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SYNCHRONICITIES (MEANINGFUL COINCIDENCES) ARE in the AIR!
I am not looking for religious answers but I am open for anything that can enlighten my spirituality….I feel there is a deficit of people around me that I could talk to about life, spirituality, the universe, dimensions, densities, alien life, and all things interesting, i nspiring, enlightening, and amazing….
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Other wordly dreamer.
In January 2006 Q magazine published its choice of the Top 100 albums, as chosen by a panel of experts. In August of the same year the Daily Mirror, conducted a similar exercise. But the Mirror’s list was selected by the general public in a poll
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Tories must talk about the next generation
I confess that I once fell over on the job. In 2001 I was sent near the Pakistan border to interview fleeing Afghans and the local imam asked me to wear an extra-large faded blue burka in the refugee camp. I was taken to interview a woman who had lost five of her six children before managing to walk with her baby across the mountains to safety
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In a burka you’re cutting me off as well as you
A Korean investment banker friend of mine died recently, but only for ten minutes.
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Death is not the last thing on their minds
We’re in the village of Baluchan, about 570 miles from Kabul at a shurah in the heart of an area until recently under Taleban control. Over the past 48 hours British and Afghan troops have been engaged in firefights with the Taleban to clear the surrounding countryside. Hajibullah, the charismatic district governor, has just made his way up from Nad-e Ali in a nervous but cheerful convoy of well-protected vehicles
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Good news from Afghanistan: democracy is taking root
One of my favourite films is Mars Attacks!, the 1996 science-fiction comedy from Tim Burton, in which Martians with Blairite grins swoop to Earth and pick off the suited earthlings that have assembled to welcome them. “Nice planet.
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What if the aliens decide they don’t like us?
The defense in the faith-healing trial in the June 2008 death of 16-year-old Neil Beagley began its case Monday with a medical expert witness who said the teen’s symptoms weren’t necessarily so bad that a reasonable person would think he could have died.
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Faith-healing defense introduces ‘silent killer’ concept
If the word “psychedelic” conjures up images of San Francisco or Woodstock, there’s much more to learn from journalist Don Lattin’s mind-blowing guided tour of the colorful people who gave birth to America’s psychedelic era in an unlikely place: Harvard University. Says Religion News Service: In his new book, ” The Harvard Psychedelic Club ,” which has received enthusiastic reviews and generated interest in Hollywood, Lattin expertly shows how Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, Huston Smith and Andrew Weil crossed paths at Harvard in the fall of 1960 before going their own separate ways. Lattin, a veteran religion reporter who walked on the wild side more than a few times himself, traces how the four men forever changed the way people — both straight and stoned — think about spirituality
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Book traces the long strange trip of drug-induced spirituality
In Britain yesterday, the House of Lords defeated a a government attempt in the pending Equality Bill to narrow the employment discrimination exemptions currently available to religious institutions under the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003 . Under that law, religious organizations can discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation in order to comply with religious doctrine or to avoid conflicting with the strongly held religious convictions of a substantial number of the religion’s followers. (Sec.
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House of Lords Votes To Keep Broader Discrimination Exemptions For Religious Organizations
Christians at Christian institutions love to pontificate over how Christian the Christian institution should remain. That appears to be the case over at Northwestern College in Minnesota where a debate over its identity persists. I tend to agree with Alex Chediak that the Minneapolis Star-Tribune ’s article over its identity crisis was pretty fair
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Identity crisis in the midwest
Filmmaker Lixin Fan may very well be one of modern-day China’s great non-fiction storytellers. His Sundance World Cinema Documentary competition film, “Last Train Home” is a documentary masterpiece that depicts China’s meteoric rise to economic powerhouse through the story of a couple who move away from their rural village to earn money in a big city factory that produces goods for export …
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Discovery | “Last Train Home” Director Lixin Fan (indieWIRE)
Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray who led a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona that turned deadly said he feels horrible about what happened but declined to comment on whether he was responsible for the deaths. He refers instead to letters drafted by his attorneys that state he was not criminally negligent.
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Leader of fatal Arizona sweat lodge speaks out
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — John Travolta has flown a jetliner carrying relief supplies into the Haitian capital, along with doctors and ministers from the Church of Scientology. The 55-year-old actor piloted his own Boeing 707 from Florida with six tons of ready-to-eat military rations and medical supplies for survivors of Haiti’s devastating Jan
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Travolta flies jetload of relief supplies to Haiti
JERUSALEM — Prominent ultra-Orthodox Israeli rabbis are targeting a new foe in the decidedly impious world of the Internet: They’ve demanded a boycott of their community’s own Web sites, accusing them of disseminating “gossip, slander … filth and abominations.”
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Ultra-Orthodox seek boycott of their own Web sites
The Greater Los Angeles Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA) today called on the California Republican Party to repudiate anti-Islam comments posted on Facebook by a Republican member of the Lancaster, Calif., city council.
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CAIR: Calif. GOP Asked To Repudiate Councilwoman’s Anti-Islam Posting (OfficialWire)
A long awaited report from a French parliamentary committee released today recommends a ban on women wearing the Muslim full-face veil in hospitals, schools, government office and on public transport.
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French Parliamentary Report Urges Ban of Full Face Veil In Public Buildings and Transport
So far, nothing I have seen coming out of Haiti has changed my mind about how journalists should approach the basic “theodicy” story. I’ve said it several times already ( click here and then here ), I am really not that interested in what American religious broadcasters or even articulate American academics have to say about the role that God or the spirits did or didn’t play in causing the hellish earthquake that rocked Port-au-Prince and the surrounding area. What matters to me are the voices of people in various faith groups — in Haiti.
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Haitian voices: God and the quake
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has called on the international community to band together against enemies calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments were clearly directed at Iran. He spoke Monday at a ceremony held at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial where the blueprints of the notorious Auschwitz death camp were unveiled
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Netanyahu says world must learn from Holocaust
ROME — Pope Benedict XVI decried Monday what he called “growing aversion” to the Christian faith in the world. The pontiff in his homily in a Rome basilica didn’t single out any geographic area, but his worry about the plight of the Christian minority in the Middle East will shape discussions Mideast bishops will hold later this year at a special meeting at the Vatican.
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Pope decries ‘aversion’ to Christians
A couple of years ago, Kenneth Copeland made a distinguished list – not the Lamb’s Book of Life, the final 12 on American Idol or even a follower on my Twitter account. No, after decades of proclaiming faith in that noted southern drawl, he bellowed his way on Sen.
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Kenneth Copeland: The government, the sheep, now the lost
It appears as if as atheists increasingly, and refreshingly, get tire of the New Atheism prompted definition of atheism as a “lack of belief in god(s)” and come right out and affirm a positive affirmation of God’s non-existence they …
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Atheism is Dead: Another Atheist Gives Up the Ghost – On the …
A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010.
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French report wants limits on Muslim face veil
In an unpublished opinion which sets out none of the relevant facts, the 9th Circuit last Friday in Lowry v. Yavapai County Board of Supervisors , (9th Cir., Jan. 22, 2010), rejected a pro se appeal in a case in which plaintiffs claimed that a zoning decision violated their free exercise rights.
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9th Circuit Rejects RLUIPA Zoning Challenge In Brief Opinion
Elysia is “an enthusiastic fashion-addicted chick writing about trends, inspiration, often changing wants, and anything else random popping into her mind,” and she blogs all about it at Fashion Fille , which is set to celebrate its two-year anniversary this July.
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Ten Questions with Fashion Fille
As a preacher in a church there is a tension to be faced. On the one hand, every time you stand up front to preach you are answerable to God for your stewardship of the opportunity. Consequently you must feel a sense of the burden of preaching what is needed and what is right for the people. Like parents with a child, sometimes it is necessary to give a certain medicine. It’s not a time to make decisions based on what the child would prefer in that moment. On the other hand we have to hear what listeners say. Preaching is communication, and if the recipient does not receive what the sender intended, then something is not working. It may be that they are hard hearted or don’t know what they need, but on the other hand, we preachers aren’t immune from error either. Perhaps we haven’t realized that our communication is failing to communicate, that our message is not comprehensible, or our application is not connecting. Perhaps we need to hear some feedback that could help us be better preachers. I firmly believe in the preacher’s answerability to God and in the preacher’s need for feedback. These two things are not mutually exclusive, but there may be times when a balance is needed. It’s always easier to label others and stand secure in our own insecurity, but let’s be sure that critique of our preaching is not actually a legitimate cry for something that we could do better, that they would value more and that God would actually be pleased with!
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Finding the Balance Without Scratching Ears
In Britain, Third Sector today calls attention to a decision ( full text ) handed down last month by the Charity Commission rejecting an application by The Gnostic Center for registration as a charity. Apparently the decision, finding that the Center failed the “public benefit” test imposed by Britain’s Charities Act, was reaffirmed earlier this month after a review by two of the Charity Commission’s board members. ( Third Sector ).
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Gnostic Center Fails Britain’s "Public Benefit" Test To Be A Charity